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From: cher@ihlpm.UUCP (Cherepov)
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Subject: Re: Terrorism, etc. (Just a thought)
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Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 13:45:26 EDT
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> > and relying on us to keep the Soviets out since 1971, not to mention 
> > keeping Israeli troops out of Cairo in 1973) I am not going to help them
> > pursue a self-serving opportunistic agenda.
> 
> Israel is a very close ally of the U.S. which has and continues to receive
> massive financial and military aid from the U.S. and still, the U.S. has
> to defend Egypt, another ally, against Israel? 
> Israel must be a very unusual ally.
>   
>    Farzin Mokhtarian
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What the hell, I have a few minutes.
Either Farzin is pretending that he did not read any of what he is responding 
to or he in fact did not read it. 
When Israeli troops were marching towards Cairo Egypt was not much
of a US ally. OK?  It seems that Egypt was much, much more of a
Soviet ally. With Soviet instructors, support and such... OK?
If I am not mistaken 73 war opened Sadat's eyes to the fact that
USSR was not worth it's weight in shit as an ally (whatever that's worth).
So::::: US got itself an new ally (Egypt) by asking it's old ally (Israel)
to exercize restraint. In that instance Israel acted, it seems, as a 
good ally should. MORAL:
Farzin have found a very poor example to prove that Israel is an unusual
ally.
			Mike Cherepov  - being testy here